I see there are just a few replies so far on the thread, so I'll say "hi" to one of my favorite people.
This big cat loves fresh air, gardens, and DJT.
All: Help needed. Got a Totally Tomatoes catalog. Never started tomatoes from seed, understand the gist. Have inside sunroom - can start tomatoes from seed. Overwhelmed by choices... Any hints/suggestions are welcomed and appreciated. Thanks...
If this weather continues Feb will be the 4th driest month ever recorded here on the Calif coast near the Oregon border...
Back in the ‘real’ world after a week following Iron Dog day/night - ended at 3 am this morning. I’m hitting the covfefe today ... might need a 2nd pot & have to take a nap.
In the meanwhile, it’s “Critterville” around here. I went to eat an avocado for lunch a couple of days ago ... it was in a bowl on the kitchen counter. When I picked it up, on the back side (not visible ‘til I did pick it up), there was a whole lot of avocado missing! I did not know mice ate avocados, but evidently they do. I promptly caught a mouse in a trap early that evening (it didn’t even wait for the kitchen lights to be turned off). I set another trap & missed a mouse ....
Night before last, while up late, I heard a strange noise in the living room - it was near the door so I thought an animal was on the front porch, but the motion light wasn’t going on ... hmmmm. Yesterday, I discovered a mouse had gotten into some packages of bird suet I had next to the front door for refilling the feeders the next morning. I set another trap yesterday afternoon - it was tripped this morning, but no mouse so I’ll have to try again.
As for the bird feeders, they are really busy these days - we have lots of cardinals (at least 4 pairs), a dove pair, chickadees, juncos, a few blue jays, finches, sparrows & lots of woodpeckers of all sizes, just to name some of what we see. We also have a very fat squirrel who ‘has been’ (note the past tense) visiting and hoarding/emptying the main black oil seed feeder. So far, all is peaceful at the feeders this morning & the woodpeckers (in particular) have already made a dent in the suet I put out yesterday.
I might try to get into the garden today ... the raised beds are growing things since we’ve had lots of rain & fairly ‘mild’ weather this winter. My cousin visited Friday - he always has a nice garden & he asked if I was getting ‘garden fever’ yet ... he has it & believe I have caught the ‘bug’ from him. :-)
We actually saw the sun over the weekend here in Central Missouri. Rain moved in from the south last night and it’s expected to continue through most of the day, then turn colder and snow tomorrow.
I got a bit of cleanup done in the garden yesterday, and put gravel on a couple places in the driveway that are suffering from the wet weather. Can’t get a machine off the driveway due to the mud, so there’s not a lot of progress to be made on outdoor projects for awhile yet.
The pond critters are starting to wake up from their winter nap. I noticed a few bullfrogs sunning themselves on the bank yesterday, and the shallow water near the edges is loaded with schools of minnows. I broke ice Saturday morning and dropped a baited minnow trap in next to the dock. Caught a ton of minnows and transferred them to a cage so I’ve got bait to go crappie fishing when the weather improves.